James Carnley
Independent Protocol Engineer & DevOps Specialist at Ethereum File System
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJames Carnley is an independent protocol engineer and DevOps specialist with 12 years of experience building and operating high-availability distributed systems, from decade-long SRE work at Epic Systems to running multi-client Ethereum validator architectures. He combines deep infrastructure expertise—validator operations, consensus client debugging (Prysm, Lighthouse, Teku, Nimbus, Lodestar), Prometheus/Grafana observability, and chaos engineering—with full‑stack development and automated testing skills. As founder of Ethereum File System he designed gas‑efficient on‑chain data structures and a deterministic topic-based protocol integrating EAS, IPFS and ENS for decentralized discoverability. Notably comfortable at the intersection of software and IT, he has hands-on experience implementing bespoke gossip protocols, SSV nodes, and serverless prototypes while regularly contributing operational feedback at core protocol conferences. Based in Chicago, he bills himself a “friendly neighborhood cypherpunk” and brings a pragmatic, security-minded approach to hardening consensus and production infrastructures.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Lamar University
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Github Skills (34)
pinning8
menubar8
unobtrusive8
ethereum-dapp7
user-friendly7
desktop-application7
ipfs7
blockchain7
staking7
beacon7
timezone6
mpc6
user-profile6
ethereum6
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LuauDAO/hodlercon
Mar 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:52 commits, 59 pushes in 1 year
JamesCarnley/frontgammon
Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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